This is our starter training. The initial training is called “Foundations in Prevention Education” and must be taken to advance to intermediatory course called “Facilitating the Hard Conversations”
“Foundations in Prevention Education”takes place over five sessions. Once you navigate through the foundational learning set you will be assigned to working groups for the facilitation practice and coaching during “Facilitating the Hard Conversations.”
Foundations in Prevention Education
- Step One
- If You’ve Got a Brain, You’ve Got a Bias: A presentation on how unconscious bias is a barrier to teaching and working together.
- Homework includes The Cultural Humility Worksheet and Curricula Checklist
- This is the first step on our foundations pathway and it is an important one. Before we can understand how to educate we need to do some internal work and consider what biases we are carring into the classroom, and what ones our students are too.
- Step Two
- Why They Fight the Facts: A presentation on why audiences resist prevention education messaging and tools for overcoming that resistance.
- Now that we’ve addressed our preconceived ideas about ourself and others, we can dig into other barriers we face to learning and start building our tool kit for overcoming them.
- Homework includes creating a audience profile and a barries and connections list
- Step Three
- How to Build Impactful Programs: Accessible Approaches to Building Prevention Programs that Change Minds and Behavior
- During this step we find more tools for building strong educational programs using two program building frameworks: “What, So What & Now What?” and the “ADDIE” method.
- Homework includes writing a research review and how it is applicable to teaching your key audience
- Step Four
- Responding to the Hard Comments & Questions: In Class Interventions that Keep the Conversation Going
- All the prep in the world cannot account for what we may face in the real world. Using real world examples and scenarios we review how to confront myths and misinformation without shame, blame or shutting down the conversation. We will also discuss classroom management techniques.
- Homework includes generating a list of hard to answer comments and questions and responses
- Step Five
- Evaluation and Response: How to assess the success of your program and make changes from that data.
- How can you tell if your program is working? How do you know that the information is getting through and that your audience is thinking critically about the topic? We will discuss both formative (in class signs that your audience is learning) and summative (more formal assessments after the class is over) to help point you towards changes that make a difference.
- Homework fill out your group assessment forms and prepare for assignment for your “Facilitating the Hard Conversations” practice groups.
(Drawing of a river with a stone path over it. Each stone has print on it that matches the name of one of the modules of learning for this course)
Got a question? Reach out to Heather- heather@imrieconsulting.com